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And that's not all: in recent years, there are growing charges that some self-styled yoga organizations and their high-profile teachers are preying on their students - replacing spiritual enlightenment with psychological manipulation, New Age "hucksterism," and even cultic worship.

Sadly, anyone watching the behavior of leading scientific organizations knows that they have thrown their prestige behind the alarmists, giving awards and honors to the likes of Al Gore and NASA's James Hansen when it is obvious to all that both are engaged in the worst kind of hucksterism and charlatanism.